Tuesday, June 07, 2011

[jules' pics] Condor!!!

This is not a condor:

It is a raven in the snow at Bryce canyon. Aren't the pretty yellow and pink rocks lovely?

We did, however, see condors at Grand Canyon:

Oh. um. I mean:

James was carrying the binocules and the condors swooped around for a while so actually we both got really good field-of-view filling memories and the photo was taken just to prove it wasn't actually a raven - here's a 100% zoom:

I did see condors at Pinnacles National Monument in California a bit over a month ago. We hike up to the highest trail in the evening and saw many flying quite close. Two were sitting on a rock less then 50 feet away. Quite a number of other birds too.